Privacy Policy

Granny Flats Illawarra (“Granny Flats Illawarra”) operates grannyflatsillawarra.com.au and may operate other websites. It is Granny Flats Illawarra’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Granny Flats Illawarra collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Granny Flats Illawarra’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Granny Flats Illawarra’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Granny Flats Illawarra may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Granny Flats Illawarra also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on grannyflatsillawarra.com.au blogs/sites. Granny Flats Illawarra only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Granny Flats Illawarra’s websites choose to interact with Granny Flats Illawarra in ways that require Granny Flats Illawarra to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Granny Flats Illawarra gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at grannyflatsillawarra.com.au to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Granny Flats Illawarra are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Granny Flats Illawarra collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Granny Flats Illawarra. Granny Flats Illawarra does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Granny Flats Illawarra may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Granny Flats Illawarra may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Granny Flats Illawarra does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Granny Flats Illawarra discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Granny Flats Illawarra’s behalf or to provide services available at Granny Flats Illawarra’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Granny Flats Illawarra’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Granny Flats Illawarra will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Granny Flats Illawarra discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Granny Flats Illawarra believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Granny Flats Illawarra, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Granny Flats Illawarra website and have supplied your email address, Granny Flats Illawarra may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Granny Flats Illawarra and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Granny Flats Illawarra takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Granny Flats Illawarra uses cookies to help Granny Flats Illawarra identify and track visitors, their usage of Granny Flats Illawarra website, and their website access preferences. Granny Flats Illawarra visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Granny Flats Illawarra’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Granny Flats Illawarra’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Granny Flats Illawarra, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Granny Flats Illawarra goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Granny Flats Illawarra may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Granny Flats Illawarra and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Granny Flats Illawarra may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Granny Flats Illawarra’s sole discretion. Granny Flats Illawarra encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a grannyflatsillawarra.com.au account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.